If you’ve seen the 2008 U.S. film “Tropic Thunder,” starring Ben Stiller, Jack Black and Robert Downey Jr., you know that the film begins with some fake movie trailers, helping establish the backgrounds of the characters in that film as actors involved in some of the most contrived action movies, gross-out flicks, and Oscar-bait coming out of Hollywood.
The U.S. DVD release of Tropic Thunder also includes a sincere trailer for the film, “The Soloist,” about a newspaper reporter who comes across a cello virtuoso who also happens to be homeless. After seeing the preview for what looked like another insipid piece of Oscar-supplication starring a popular actor as a character with mental disabilities, I said as much to my viewing companion.
“Wait,” she said in disbelief. “That wasn’t one of the fake trailers?”
November 23, 2009
My editor wouldn't let me review 2012 so I saw this instead
